Daiches, David, and John Flower.
New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Explains topographical references in the works of various British writers, from Chaucer to Robert Louis Stevenson and James Joyce, and explores how various locales contributed to various works of literature, including works by Shakespeare, Dr.…
Chapter four (pp. 89-127) treats together Chaucer, Gower, and "Piers Plowman," presenting Chaucer in his time but arguing that, as an artist, he transcends it. Introduces Chaucer's life and offers summary comments on each of his major works,…
Daiches, David.
New York: Ronald; London: Secker & Warburg 1960.
Describes Chaucer as the "brilliant culmination of Middle English literature," commending his "metrical craftsmanship" in English, his "European consciousness," and his "relaxed, quizzical attitude that let him contemplate the varieties of human…
Daichman, Graciela S.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Examines the medieval nunnery as an institution and the records of indecorous behavior of medieval nuns. A stock character of medieval literature, the "profligate nun" is seen in Chaucer's Madam Eglentyne and the Archpriest of Hita's Dona Garoza.
Daichman, Graciela Susana.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1983): 485A.
In the "Libro de buen amor" and CT, Dona Garoza and the Prioress are treated satirically, in a tradition based on reports of bishops' visitations to convents.
Daileader, Celia R.
Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 26-39.
WBT and Mel contain comparable female characters who use discourse to challenge the antifeminist patristic tradition. The plot in both tales--the transformation of a misguided male by a knowledgeable woman--points to a more "peaceful" world where…
Dalbey, Marcia A.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 75 (1974): 408-15.
Examines the allegorization of Pluto and Proserpine in the "Ovide Moralisé" and argues that it discloses how as figures of "earthly lust" their episode is well integrated into MerT.
Dalby, Richard.
Book and Magazine Collector 199: 46-59, 2000.
Surveys the sales performance of various editions of Chaucerian texts, concentrating on recent sales and auctions and on market values. Includes a brief survey of Chaucer's works and editions and responds to the auction of Caxton's first edition for…
An introduction to critical approaches to Middle English literature, featuring twenty-two reprinted examples of critical methods by various authors. Chapters include authorship; textual form; genre; language, style and rhetoric; allegory;…
Dalrymple, Roger.
Phillipa Hardman, ed. The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2002), pp. 149-62.
Although based on Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, "Amoryus and Cleopes" (1449) was clearly influenced by TC in diction and style. Metham's amelioration of tragedy simplifies Chaucer's complex and ambiguous combination of de casibus tragedy and…
Dalrymple, Roger.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 175-82.
Explores how "enquiry-based learning (EBL)" as a pedagogical approach can be used to help undergraduate students understand Chaucer's religious context in CT.
Dalton, Emily.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.03 (2017): n.p.
Considers names in BD as part of a larger examination of nomenclature's role in defining Englishness within the context of other linguistic traditions.
Dalton, John Paul.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 121A, 1999.
In his love visions, Chaucer initially claims to be stupefied by love and love poetry. Dalton analyzes this topos-deriving from many sources, including Boethius, the Roman de la Rose, and poems of Machaut-in BD, HF, PF, and TC.
Daly, Saralyn R.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 442-44.
Maintains that anachronistic details of Criseyde's address to night in TC 3.1429-42 deviate from traditional albas and indicate that she "challenges God" in favor of her own will, indicated by her unorthodox attitude toward Providence.
Edits "The Isle of Ladies," with accompanying notes, glossary, and commentary, the latter including discussion of the text, language, date, authorship, literary context, style, and meter of the poem. The poem was first printed by Thomas Speght in…
An introduction to poetry in English, its history, and its forms, arranged by author and topic. Includes a brief introduction to Chaucer that emphasizes his social mobility, CT, and his use of English.
Damico, Helen, ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1998.
Thirty-two essays by various authors, sketching the biographies and intellectual achievements of scholars who have helped shape medieval studies. Of greatest interest to Chaucerians are the essays on Frederick J. Furnivall (by Derek Pearsall),…
Damon, John.
Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 41-56.
Martial imagery in SNT presents Cecilia as a "kind of general in a spiritual army of the steadfast faithful." Seen in light of Th and Mel, SNT idealizes "non-violent resistance, not passive resignation, to abuses of power."
Damrosch, David, gen. ed.
New York: Longman, 2004.
Volume B, entitled "The Medieval Era," includes selections from CT (GP, MilPT, and WBPT; pp. 1239-1306) in the translation by J. U. Nicolson, with brief notes and glosses. The 2d edition (2009) adds David L. Pike as a gen. ed., and includes the same…
Danby, John F.
Critical Quarterly 2 (1960): 28-32.
Comments on stylistic and tonal aspects of GP 1.1-18, focusing on their harmonious energy and "generalized vocabulary." Also comments Chaucer's sympathetic irony elsewhere in GP.
Dance, Richard, and Laura Wright, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.
Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and an index. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Use and Development of Middle English under Alternative Title.
Dance, Richard.
Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 71-87.
Concentrates on the relationship between Old and Middle English poetic forms, especially during the transition from Old to Middle English, focusing on the "Soul's Address to the Body" and "The Ormulum" before concluding with a discussion of Chaucer's…
Dane, Joseph A.
Studia Neophilologica 63 (1991): 161-67.
Analyzes Chaucer's exploitation of the potentially contradictory meanings of "trouthe," especially (1) personal loyalty, fidelity; (2) linguistic truth; and (3) factuality.
